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Tony Breeds wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 06:28:14PM +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>
>> The second issue is that we don't have any way to run an election on the
>> project, since we don't have a way to determine "contributors" (or rather,
>> the only voter and potential candidate under those rules would be Monty).
>> You can't even apply to be the PTL :) That is obviously an exceptional case
>> and if I read Tristan's answer correctly, it will naturally end up in the
>> process where the TC ends up picking the PTL. It feels natural if you're the
>> only candidate that we would pick you, but that will likely have to wait
>> until the end of the election period.
>
> I don't think we have the luxury of waiting.  There needs to be a small
> amount of corrective action taken now.
>
> As pointed out elsewhere in this thread the TC has the ability to appoint a PTL
> should a project end up leaderless should that happen.
>
> However, at the risk of sounding like a humorless automaton, we have a valid
> candidate.
>   * Monty Taylor for Packaging-Deb PTL https://review.openstack.org/#/c/292690/
>
> In the interests of transparency I'll say this here.  Monty if you do *NOT*
> have a genuine desire to lead the packaging-deb team please abandon that review
> ASAP.
>
> Also by the rules I feel like we have no choice but to reject
>   * Adding Packaging-Deb/Thomas_Goirand.txt https://review.openstack.org/#/c/292885/

Like others have said, it's impossible to change election rules 
mid-flight. So we seem to have two ways out of this hole that would not 
break the established rules:

1/ Monty abandons his candidacy, so we have no valid candidate and the 
TC ends up picking the PTL (and may pick up Thomas, as he is the only 
volunteer)

2/ Monty does not abandon his candidacy, and automatically ends up as 
Packaging-deb PTL (that does not prevent Thomas from working on it, but 
Monty gets the final call on disputes)

Thomas: I'd advise you have a talk with Monty - his candidacy is valid 
unless he abandons it (and he has a pretty valid history and experience 
around debian packaging in openstack, so it's not as if he was the 
craziest candidate ever).

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)